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The silly chickens huddle in dismay.Each shadow cast by falling leaves they taketo be a hawk descending on its prey.They’re scared, while I’m just resting on my rake.Today’s the...

The Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary is a distinct layer in the rock strata laid down about 65 million years ago. Its creation coincides with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs...

I’m waiting like a child on Christmas Eve,waiting for dawn to show me that the snowis finally here. It’s falling, I believe,but I’ll need more of morning light to...

The mountaineers of Hitler’s 16th corpsstood on Mt. Elbrus and admired the view,confident that peace was near. Case Bluehad gone as planned. In one last blitz they’d tourthe storied...

The last few monks retreat in monasteries, the vigilant in town consult well-thumbed survival guides, and all the caged canaries left in the mines have recently succumbed. Tales reach...

It’s always been Reward the win, Ignore the sin. The conscience sleeps When money keeps Pouring in.

An atom’s 99.9% nothing at all. The world’s an empty place. Its solid shapes are objects we invent to give a form to nuclei and space. But these constructions...

He walked with me around the grounds, expecting me to give away” by how I sighed at this, or shrugged at that”what I might spend, today , to buy...

This is a choice—it’s not a tragedy— And we exist to help you get it done. Why make this harder than it has to be? Click through, review a...

No intimations, fables, puppet shows; No need for parables: up there one sees Reality; good books stay on the shelf. But am I ready for this loss? God knows...

The heavens hold more stars than earth has grains Of sand, and given time, each tiny sun Combined should make a world where starlight stains The sky bright white...